I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
This planning sheet was designed to help students build the skills they need to appropriately attempt the writing section of the functional skills exam. There are tasks to build skills with spelling, grammar and punctuation and helps them to plan a successful written response.
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This is a free A3 sheet with differentiated tasks to help learners understand the important elements to include in creative writing. The worksheet also includes a sample response as well as guidance on how it might be improved. If you liked this resource, then please check out the full lesson via our shop Creative Writing: Gothic Literature.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at some key questions on paper one: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. The lesson helps learners gain a good understanding of language, structure and how to approach the creative writing response.
The lesson includes model responses and has been tried and tested with my own groups.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson designed for learners studying any level of Functional Skills or ESOL English. The lesson uses the topic of vaping to help learners understand how to construct a leaflet and also practise key reading and writing skills.
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A collection of fully differentiated lessons looking a key key charscyers and themes from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Each lesson has been designed to be taught regardless if the lesson is remote or face-to-face and all have been tried and tested with my own students.
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These are a collection of fully differentiated lessons created around the new specification for functional skills level one and two. Each lesson has tasks that will stretch and challenge learners and help them build the skills to enable them to feel confidant about English and pass each exam.
Each lesson covers issues that are designed to engage and inspire learners and help them to build skills from spelling and grammar, to sentence structures and language techniques used for persuasive writing.
Each of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own students and has helped me to improve their skills, confidence and competency within English.
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This is a fully differentiated workbook that is ideal for large classes or small groups. Each question is linked to the paper one exam-explorations in creative reading and writing. All of my workbooks have been tried and tested and have helped my students to improve.
This is a fully differentiated lessons looking at the character of Sherlock Holmes in the story The Speckled Band. The lesson introduces learners to the key concept of making inferences and how this can be applied to studying English.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and helps to develop skills when responding to language questions. The PowerPoint includes a student example that works well to help learners to make a response to an exam-style question.
All of my lessons are tried and tested with my own groups, if you like this lesson then please check out my shop which is updated weekly with more resources and lessons.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the character of Eva Smith and how she is described by other characters within the play. The lesson also looks at the theme of responsibility and how this is presented in the play. The lesson has may opportunities for AFL and also has an exam-style question.
This lesson can be taught both online and face-to-face and requires no additional resources or printing. All of my lessons have been tried and tested, if you liked this lesson then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at chapter ten of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The lesson helps learners understand the importance of the chapter and how to identify key quotations and techniques used within the extract.
This lesson can be taught both online and face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at The Class Game by Marey Casey. The lesson looks at understanding how language, structure and form has been used to present the theme of conflict. The lesson has a model response and helps learners to plan a response to an exam-style question. The lesson also looks at drawing comparisons to the other poems in the anthology.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and has been designed to require no additional printing. If you liked this recourse, then please check out my poetry bundle and my shop which is updated each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the characters of Benvolio and Tybalt in Act One of Romeo and Juliet. The lesson helps learners to understand how Shakespeare has created a contrast between the different characters.
The lesson includes a key scene from the play and helps learners approach an exam-style question.
This Lesson can be taught either online or face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out our YouTube channel for more lessons.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the theme of punishment in the novella, A Christmas Carol. The lesson looks at a key extract within the text and helps learners analyse if effectively to respond to an exam-style question. This lesson has many opportunities for AFL and also comes with a sample student response.
This lesson can be taught both remotely or face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own learners.
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This lesson has been designed for learners studying all aspects of Functional Skill English. The lesson has specifically been designed to support learners with narrative writing for the writing assessment and includes an example response.
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This lesson has been designed for learners studying Functional Skills level one or level two. The lesson includes both reading and writing tasks on the topic of vaping. The lesson also goes through how to create an effective speech, key techniques and how to plan for the exam.
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This is the fourth lesson in a sixteen week course for anyone studying Functional Skills English. In this lesson we go over the key language techniques and look at the first ten questions in the reading assessment with the answers included.
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This lesson is the third in a sixteen-week course looking at Functional Skills English Level One and Level Two. The lesson goes through the DAFORREST techniques needed for both reading and writing, provides feedback from the initial assessment and also takes a first look at the reading assessment.
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This is lesson two in a sixteen-week series looking at writing for different purposes for Functional Skills level One and Level Two. The lesson helps learners to understand texts and how to select quotations to justify opinions. The lesson also includes an example of an initial assessment to help understand the current writing level of your learners.
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